View From the Bushes

I watched Fight Club last night. I'm ashamed to admit that it's the first time I saw it, and of course, I already knew the big secret of the movie. Still, I quite enjoyed it. My wife, on the other hand, hated it. Maybe hate is too strong a word, but she is going to give it one star on Netflix. I tried to explain to her why I liked it: the idea that civilization is emasculating (emasculation has a strong thematic presence) is not only interesting, but compelling. She retorted that men were responsible for civilization, to which I retorted with the permanent estrus theory of civilization.

PEToC basically states that males are only motivated to do thing for females while they're in heat; that is the only time gifts are given, etc. And that once human females developed permenant estrus, this gift giving became ubiquitious and competitive, voila!... civilization. If you have your doubts, consider which gender would be happier about the idea of abandoning civilization to live in the jungle off bugs? This is, of course, an extremely condensed explanation of PEToC, but hopefully you get the idea.

In other movie news, Time published their list of the 100 All-Time Best Movies. Some have complained about how many of the movies were made outside of the U.S., but not me. For me, that's a huge benefit. It's comparitively easy to discover good movies made in the U.S. It's a lot more difficult to find out about good foreign movies. I'm also gratified to see that the list seems to be evenly distributed across the entire history of film, rather than being overloaded with recent releases.

Nearing the top of my sisyphean mountain
Ross